....lace

This piece of corrugated cardboard came at the bottom of the bag of Chinese take out. This is the stage of the Lace Futures project where every string you pull on is connected in some way to lace. So there at the bottom of the bag is a piece of corrugated cardboard which has been cut off from a larger piece and cut right through a word, leaving the word "lace." How fortunate. I start wondering about the missing part of the word....
birthplace
bootlace
commonplace
displace
fireplace
interlace
marketplace
misplace
necklace
palace
place
populace
replace
shoelace
showplace
solace
someplace
unlace
workplace

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